There are many time references in "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." let us go then, you and i, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table; and seeing that it was a soft october night, curled once about the house, and fell asleep. and the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! smoothed by long fingers, what is the most likely reason for prufrock’s emphasis on the afternoon and evening hours? he is comparing the daylight to his fear of being alone. he prefers to stay home late in the day. he prefers to go out late in the day. he is comparing the time of day to his progressing age.

Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return

Which quotation best supports the authors’ claim and purpose?

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.